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Education panel to review local education board system

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Takeo Kawamura (L) speaks at a meeting of the Central Education Council on March 4. He urged the advisory panel to drastically review local education boards to update the nation's 55-year-old board system, as Council Chairman Yasuhiko Torii listens.

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Panel urges drastic change to education law

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (L), chairman of the Central Education Council, a government advisory panel, hands a report recommending a drastic revision of the basic education law to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on March 20. The report specifically advocated the idea of cultivating patriotism and public spirit in schools with an emphasis on individual dignity.

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Education panel recommends mandating student community work

TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo - Atsuko Toyama (L), Japan's education minister, receives a report on education policy from Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of an advisory panel to Toyama, at a hotel July 29 in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The panel recommended schoolchildren be required to take part in community activities, and that this be a part of student evaluations.

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Education panel proposes dismissed teachers surrender licenses

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (R), chairman of the Central Education Council, presents an interim report summarizing his panel's recommendations on education reform to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on Dec. 25. The panel proposed taking away the licenses of teachers who are dishonorably dismissed.

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Gov't asks panel to consider education law revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (L) asks Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of the Central Council for Education, her advisory panel, on Nov. 26 to recommend within a year whether Japan's 1947 Fundamental Law of Education should be revised. Toyama said a study of revisions to the law is necessary to deal with changes in the times and society, nurture creativity, and foster respect for tradition and culture.

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Education panel selects Keio Univ. head Torii as chief

TOKYO, Japan - Keio University President Yasuhiko Torii (R) addresses a meeting of the Central Education Council in Tokyo on Feb. 1 after being chosen as head of the advisory panel to education minister Nobutaka Machimura (L). It was the Council's first meeting with new members since a major shakeup of central government entities in January.

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Gov't asks panel to consider education law revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (L) asks Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of the Central Council for Education, her advisory panel, on Nov. 26 to recommend within a year whether Japan's 1947 Fundamental Law of Education should be revised. Toyama said a study of revisions to the law is necessary to deal with changes in the times and society, nurture creativity, and foster respect for tradition and culture.

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Education panel proposes dismissed teachers surrender licenses

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (R), chairman of the Central Education Council, presents an interim report summarizing his panel's recommendations on education reform to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on Dec. 25. The panel proposed taking away the licenses of teachers who are dishonorably dismissed.

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Education panel recommends mandating student community work

TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo - Atsuko Toyama (L), Japan's education minister, receives a report on education policy from Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of an advisory panel to Toyama, at a hotel July 29 in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The panel recommended schoolchildren be required to take part in community activities, and that this be a part of student evaluations. (Kyodo)

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Memorial service to commemorate students sent to WWII battlefields

Yasuhiko Torii, former president of Keio University, offers a flower on Oct. 21, 2015, at a monument in the compound of Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Tokyo to remember students who were sent to the battlefields of World War II, during a memorial service on Oct. 21, 2015. A large-scale send-off ceremony was held on Oct. 21, 1943, in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Education panel to review local education board system

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Takeo Kawamura (L) speaks at a meeting of the Central Education Council on March 4. He urged the advisory panel to drastically review local education boards to update the nation's 55-year-old board system, as Council Chairman Yasuhiko Torii listens. (Kyodo)

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Panel urges drastic change to education law

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (L), chairman of the Central Education Council, a government advisory panel, hands a report recommending a drastic revision of the basic education law to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on March 20. The report specifically advocated the idea of cultivating patriotism and public spirit in schools with an emphasis on individual dignity. (Kyodo)

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Education panel selects Keio Univ. head Torii as chief

TOKYO, Japan - Keio University President Yasuhiko Torii (R) addresses a meeting of the Central Education Council in Tokyo on Feb. 1 after being chosen as head of the advisory panel to education minister Nobutaka Machimura (L). It was the Council's first meeting with new members since a major shakeup of central government entities in January.